Blackbird

Diddú ~ Ave Maria

2009-12-10T23:30:00.002-01:00

Diddú & Blásarasextett Mosfellsdals

1. Franz Schubert / Sigurður Einarsson Ave Maria

2. Caccini/Mercurio / Latin prayer Ave Maria

3. Luigi Cherubini / Latin prayer Ave Maria

4. Old hymn tune / Unknown author Marian prayer

5. Björgvin Guðmundsson / Latin prayer Ave Maria

6. Eyþór Stefánsson / Latin prayer Ave Maria

7. Sigurður Þórðarson / Latin prayer Ave Maria

8. Páll Ísólfsson / Davíð Stefánsson Marian prayer

9. Bach/Gounod / Latin prayer Ave Maria

10. Georges Bizet / Latin prayer Ave Maria

11. Pietro Mascagni / Latin prayer Ave Maria

12. From an Icelandic gradual / Ólafur Hjaltason Mother of God

13. Einar Markan / Einar Markan Marian prayer

14. Karl Ottó Runólfsson / Matthías Jochumsson Marian prayer

15. Þórarinn Jónsson / Latin prayer Ave Maria

16. Sigvaldi Kaldalóns / Indriði Einarsson Ave Maria

17. Sigvaldi Kaldalóns / Halla Eyjólfsdóttir Marian prayer

18. Gunnar Þórðarson / Sigurður H. Guðmundsson Ave Maria

19. Atli Heimir Sveinsson / Halldór Laxness Marian prayer

Diddú

She made her name when she sang with the legendary folk band Spilverk Þjóðanna 1975-78, and has made numerous recordings of folk music, popular music, lieder and operatic arias.

The members of the Wind Sextet of Mosfellsdalur are all veterans of the classical scene and their arrangements are renowned for the quality.

Most of the Icelandic melodies on this program were composed by men who played important roles in the growing Icelandic music life in the first half of the 20th century. Two of the composers are still in their prime and are among the leading composers of Iceland today, in different fields of music though. In 1995, when Atli Heimir Sveinsson wrote the melody for the Marian prayer by Halldór Laxness, the poem had recently been discovered. The future Nobel Prize laureate wrote it shortly after he had converted to Catholicism for a period of time in the twenties. The Ave Maria of Gunnar Þórðarson and the Rev. Sigurður Helgi Guðmundsson is the newest piece on the programme. It is included in the High Mass from the year 2000 by the two men and indicates that Mary still has the power to stir the imagination of Icelandic artists

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12 tónar Iceland 2004

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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart

2009-11-27T21:18:00.008-01:00

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.

He was born in Augsburg, son of Johann Georg Mozart (1679-1736), a bookbinder, and his second wife Anna Maria Sulzer (1696-1766). From an early age he sang as a choirboy. He attended a local Jesuit school, the St. Salvator Gymnasium, where he studied logic, science, theology, graduating magna cum laude in 1735. He then moved on to a more advanced school, the St. Salvator Lyceum.

While a student in Augsburg, he appeared in student theatrical productions as an actor and singer, and became a skilled violinist and organist. He also developed an interest, which he retained, in microscopes and telescopes. Although his parents had planned a career for Leopold as a Catholic priest, this apparently was not Leopold's own wish. An old school friend told Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777, "Ah he [Leopold] was a great fellow. My father thought the world of him. And how he hoodwinked the clerics about becoming a priest!"

He withdrew from the St. Salvator Lyceum after less than a year. Following a year's delay, he moved to Salzburg to resume his education, enrolling in November 1737 at the Benedictine University to study philosophy and jurisprudence. At the time Salzburg was the capital of an independent state with Holy Roman Empire (the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg), now part of Austria. Except for periods of travel, Leopold spent the rest of his life there.

Leopold received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1738. However, in September 1739 he was expelled from the university for poor attendance, having "hardly attended Natural Science more than once or twice".

Leopold Mozart's music is inevitably overshadowed by the work of his son Wolfgang, and in any case the father willingly sacrificed his own career to promote his son's. But Leopold's Cassation in G for Orchestra and Toys (Toy Symphony), once attributed to Joseph Haydn, remains popular, and a number of symphonies, a trumpet concerto, and other works also survive.

Leopold Mozart was much concerned with a naturalistic feel to his compositions, his Jagdsinfonie (or Sinfonia da Caccia for four horns and strings) calls for dogs and shotguns, and his Bauernhochzeit (Peasant Wedding) includes bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, a dulcimer, whoops and whistles (ad. lib.), and pistol shots.

When Leopold died on 28 May 1787, Wolfgang was unable to attend the funeral, the travel time to Salzburg being too long.

Little information is available on how Wolfgang took Leopolds' death, but a postscript he included in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Janequin suggests that, despite the quarrels and partial estrangement, his father's death was a blow to him: "I inform you that on returning home today I received the sad news of my most beloved father's death. You can imagine the state I am in."
For more see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Mozart

1 CD 232 mb Flac, booklet incl.

Smekkleysa 2006

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Händel ~ Faramondo

2009-09-26T00:09:00.007Z

Georg Friederich Händel ~ Faramondo

Opera in three acts, HWV 39

Max Emanuel Cencic ~ Faramondo
Philippe Jaroussky ~ Adolfo
Sophie Karthäuser ~ Clotilde
Marina de Liso ~ Rosimonda
In-Sung Sim ~ Gustavo
Xavier Sabata ~ Gernando
Fulvio Bettini ~ Teobaldo
Terry Wey ~ Childerico

Coro della Radio Svissera, Lugano

I BAROCCHISTI

Duilio Galfetti first violin
Diego Fasolis direction

Virgin Classics 2009
Format: Flac, 3 cd´s, 895 mb.

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Tosca ~ Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)

2009-06-04T19:57:00.003Z

Giacomo Puccini short biography

A member of a dynasty of musicians, Giacomo Puccini was the most famous Italian opera composer, next only to Verdi. Puccini began his music education in his native Lucca and continued at the Milan Conservatory where he was a student of Ponchielli and Bazzini. Puccini’s first outstanding success was in 1893 with Manon Lescaut. Puccini wrote 12 operas, a number of orchestral compositions, sacred music and songs. Puccini’s melodic gift made his arias exceedingly popular. News of Puccini’s death in 1924, was announced during a performance of his La bohème in Rome. The orchestra stopped the performance and played Chopin's Funeral March to a sobbing audience.

TOSCA

Georg Solti

National Philharmonic Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Chorus

Kiri Te Kanawa

Leo Nucci

Giacomo Aragall

Spiro Malas

Malcolm King

Piero de Palma

The Decca Record Company Limited 1986

Format: Flac,

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Disk 2 : 222 Mb

Kiri Te Kanawa was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on March 6, 1944, into a family that was too poor to keep her. She was adopted the following month by Tom and Nell Te Kanawa, whose respective Maori and European lineage matched that of her natural parents. The aboriginal people of New Zealand, the Maori, are a mixture of Polynesian and Melanesian. Although the family was not especially musical, Nell Te Kanawa encouraged her adopted daughter to sing, and at around the age of six she performed on a local radio broadcast.
In 1956 the family moved to Auckland at the insistence of Mrs. Te Kanawa, so that her daughter could be placed under the tutelage of a respected voice teacher, Sister Mary Leo, at St. Mary's College for Girls.
Her first triumph came as winner of the Auckland Competition in 1960. Two years later she was runner-up in the more prestigious Mobile Song Quest, and in 1965 she won this competition. In the same year she entered aria competitions of both the Sydney and Melbourne Suns, said to be the two most important such events in Australasia. The first awarded her second prize, but her singing of "Leise, leise" (sung in English as "Softly Singing") from Weber's Der Freischütz won her first place in the Melbourne Sun competition.

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Heinrich Schütz ~ Psalmen Davids

2009-03-31T21:42:00.005Z

Heinrich Schütz (b: October 8 , 1585 in Köstritz – d: November 6, 1672 in Dresden)

was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on July 28 with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. He was buried in the Dresden Frauenkirche but his tomb has since been destroyed.

He was the eldest son of Christoph Schütz and Euphrosyne Bieger. In 1590 the family moved to Weißenfels, where his father, Christoph managed the inn "Zum Ring". When staying at the inn, Schütz's musical talents were discovered by Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1599. After being a choir-boy he went on to study law and etymology at Marburg before going to Venice from 1609–1612 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He subsequently had a short stint as organist at Kassel before moving to Dresden in 1615 to work as court composer to the Elector of Saxony. In 1619 Schütz married Magdalena Wildeck who had been born in 1601. She produced two daughters before her death in 1625, Anna Justina born in 1621 and Euphrosyne born in 1623.

In Dresden he sowed the seeds of what is now the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, but left there on several occasions; in 1628 he went to Venice again, most likely meeting Claudio Monteverdi there—he may have studied with him—and in 1633, after the Thirty Years' War had disrupted life at the court, he took a post at Copenhagen. He returned to Dresden in 1641. In 1655, the year that his daughter Euphrosyne died, he accepted an ex officio post of Kapellmeister at Wolfenbüttel. He died from a stroke in 1672 at the age of 87.

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Naxos 1996 DDD

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Gardar Thor Cortes ~ Cortes

2009-03-20T19:47:00.005-01:00

1. Nella Fantasia
2. Hunting High and Low
3. Luna
4. Love is a Miracle
5. Caruso
6. Romanza
7. Lontano
8. Where the lost ones go (With Katherine Jenkins)
9. Nessun Dorma
10. Granada
11. Con Te
12. Skyid

Cortes was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 2 May 1974 into a musical family. His father, Garðar Cortes Snr., was a world-class tenor who founded the Icelandic Opera, the Reykjavík School of Singing and the Reykjavík Symphony Orchestra. According to Cortes, his father had the same stature as Pavarotti and Domingo, and once when he was ill while performing in Oslo Domingo stepped in for him. "He sang the main spinto tenor roles, including Caravadossi [from Tosca], Otello, Alfredo [La Traviata] and Canio [Pagliacci]. He'd go away to sing Otello in Helsinki and he'd be there for several weeks, and he became so homesick he couldn't do it, so he didn't go as far as he should have and stopped." His English mother, Krystyna, was a concert pianist who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His sister Nanna Maria is an operatic soprano, while his younger brother Aron Axel is studying to become a baritone. When commitments permit, the Cortes children perform in the chorus when their father is conducting an opera.

Cortes spent six months at a Hertfordshire private school in England when he was aged nine and 11. He insists that there was never any pressure on him to become a singer. "At home, mum was always playing piano and dad was singing. I'd listen to dad's records of other tenors and whole operas but I also had a huge pile of Bon Jovi, Queen and Shakin' Stevens albums. I absolutely loved Prince and when I was 10 I was convinced I wanted to be a pop star. Then I got bitten by the acting bug."

At 13 he won the lead role of Nonni in Nonni and Manni (known in German as Nonni und Manni) (1988–1989), an Icelandic TV series about two children living with their mother and grandmother in the late 1850s which was filmed in Iceland, Norway and England and highly successful in Europe. Cortes got the part because he could speak English and ride horses bareback: "It was great fun: we had all sorts of adventures with polar bears, an erupting volcano and getting lost at sea with whales tipping the rowing boat over. I'd always loved movies but it didn't ignite until then." Actor Einar Örn Einarsson, who played Manni, remains Cortes's best friend.
Soon after he turned 18, Cortes decided he wanted to be a singer. "I loved acting but I realised I couldn't live without music. What decided me was the amount of times I have cried over a phrase in an opera or the piano. In opera you can combine the two and, apart from Domingo, there aren't that many singers who are good actors." He spent four years at his father’s school in Reykjavík and then won a scholarship to the Hochschule, or University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, but left after six months to study privately with Professor Andrei Orlowitz in Copenhagen. For the next five years he spent two weeks in Denmark, then flew home to earn enough to pay the tuition and the airfares. He sang at funerals and weddings, appeared as Tony in West Side Story at the National Theatre in Reykjavík in 1995, and for five summers worked with disabled people. At the opera he was the toilet cleaner, the usher and the doorman. Recalling his father's advice about the hardships of a musical career, Cortes has commented: "Even though he told me it was difficult, I still wanted to pursue this road. But looking back, you realise he was right, it is bloody difficult! Excuse the language."

Other teachers that he had the opportunity to work with included David Maxwell Anderson, Stuart Burrows, Paul Farrington, Paul Whynne Griffiths, David Jones, Kiri Te Kanawa and Robin Stapleton.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ar_Th%C3%B3r_Cortes

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Release date 2008
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Placido Domingo ~ Be my Love

2009-03-12T00:25:00.004-01:00

Especially made for my dear friend ICE

1 Granada
2 Core‘ngrato
3 Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
4 Mattinata
5 Siboney
6 Ay, Ay, Ay,
7 Be My Love
8 Magic is the Moonlight
9 Because
10 Marta
11 Non ti scordar di me
12 Jurame
13 Ich schenke dir eine neue Welt
14 Ampola

Placido Domingo, Tenor

London Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Karl Heinz Loges and Marcel Peeters

Deutsche Grammophon 1976 ADD

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) ~ Il Trovatore

2009-03-06T22:49:00.002-01:00

Il Trovatore ~ Highlights from the complete recording in Italian

Dramma in quattro parti

Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Maestro del coro: Norbert Balatsch

Assistenza musicale: Robert Benaglio

Maestro : Carlo Maria Giulini

Deutsche Grammophon 1984 DDD

Format Flac: 249 mb.

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Don Carlos ~ Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

2009-02-25T21:45:00.002-01:00

Don Carlos Opéra en cinq actes

Don Carlos, Infant d‘Espagne ~ Placido Domingo
Elisabeth de Valois ~ Katia Ricciarelli
Philippe II, Roi d‘Espagne ~ Ruggero Raimondi
Rodrigue, Marquis de Posa ~ Leo Nucci
Le Grand Inquisiteur ~ Nicolai Ghiaurov
Un Moine ~ Nikita Storojev
La Princesse Eboli ~ Lucia Valentini Terrani
Thibault, Page d‘Elisabet de Valois ~ Ann Murray
Une Voix d‘en Haut ~ Arleen Augér
Le Comte de Lerme ~ Tibere Raffalli
Un Héraut Royal ~ Antonio Savastano
Un Bucheron ~ Alessandro Corbelli

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Maestri del coro ~ Romano Gandolfi * Giulio Bertola
Maestro della banda ~ Franco Lizzio

Direttore ~ Claudio Abbado

Chanté sur le texte francais original

Deutsche grammophon 1985, DDD
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

2009-02-22T16:10:00.009-01:00

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Melodrama buffo in two acts

Figaro ~ Thomas Allen, Baritone

Rosina ~ Agnes Baltsa, Mezzo-soprano

Almaviva ~ Francisco Araiza, Tenor

Bartolo ~ Domenico Trimarchi, Baritone

Basilio ~ Robert Lloyd, Bass

Berta ~ Sally Burgess, Mezzo-soprano

Fiorello ~ Matthew Best, Bass

Ufficiale ~ John Noble, Baritone

Ambrosian Opera Chorus. Director: John McCarthy

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner

Mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa was born on the Greek island of Lefkas on 19 November 1944. From the age of six she took piano lessons. In 1958 she moved to Athens where she graduated from the conservatory in 1965. In the same year she won a Maria Callas scholarship which enabled her to continue her studies in Munich (Germany). In 1968 she made her first appearance as Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Frankfurt Opera, followed by Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier, R. Strauss) at the Vienna State Opera in 1970. Until today, she is the youngest Ocativian ever at the Vienna State Opera.

Sir Thomas Allen is an established star of the great opera houses of the world. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where in 2006 he celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of his début with the company, he has sung over forty roles. In 2006, he also celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary of his début at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Equally renowned on the concert platform, he appears in recital in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, in Australia and America, and has performed with the world's great orchestras and conductors. The greatest part of his repertoire has been extensively recorded.

His plans include a return to the Metropolitan Opera; his role debut as Gianni Schicchi for Los Angeles Opera, Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and for Dallas Opera and Father (Hansel und Gretel) and Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier) for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

He made a triumphant directing debut in 2003 with ‘Albert Herring’ at the Royal College of Music and he has recently directed tremendously successful productions of ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Così fan tutte’ for Samling Opera at The Sage, Gateshead. He made an equally acclaimed U.S. directing debut with ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ for Arizona Opera at the beginning of the 2006/07 season and with ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’ for Scottish Opera in 2007.

In the New Year's Honours of 1989 he was created a Commander of the British Empire and, in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made a Knight Bachelor.

Philips 1983. Format: Flac 3 disks.

Libretto incl: Courtesy of KAREOL.

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Giuseppe Verdi ~ Aida

2009-02-11T19:47:00.008-01:00

Reupload with tracknames; older links on request

Giuseppe Verdi ~ Aida

Aida ~ Katia Ricciarelli
Radamés ~ Placido Domingo
Amneris ~ Elena Obraztsova
Amonasro ~ Leo Nucci
Ramfis ~ Nicolai Ghiaurov
Il Re ~ Ruggero Raimondi
Sacerdotessa ~ Lucia Valentini Terrani

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Maestro del Coro ~ Romano Gandolfi

Claudio Abbado

Deutsche Grammophon 1982

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Thomas Quasthoff ~ Die Stimme

2009-02-08T23:35:00.003-01:00

Thomas Quasthoff ~ Die Stimme
Deutsche Opernarien
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Christian Thielemann

1. Zar und Zimmermann: O sancta justitia! by Albert Lortzing
2. Zar und Zimmermann: Den Hohen Herrscher...Heil sei dem Tag by Albert Lortzing
3. Zar und Zimmermann: Sonst spielt ich mit Szepter by Albert Lortzing
4. Der Wildschütz: Fünftausend Taler by Albert Lortzing
5. Der Wildschütz: Lass Er doch hören...Bei diesem schliemmen Fall by Albert Lortzing
6. Der Wildschütz: Wie freundlich strahlt die holde Morgensonne by Albert Lortzing
7. Tannhäuser: Gar viel und schön by Richard Wagner
8. Tannhäuser: O, du mein holder Abendstern by Richard Wagner
9. Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80: Wie schön ist doch die Musik by Richard Strauss
10. Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81: Wo berg'ich mich?...Und er soll by Carl Maria von Weber

Once more Thomas Quasthoff puts us in his debt with a recital wholly out of the ordinary, executed – with Thielemann’s eager cooperation – confidently in singing of such strength and beauty as to almost silence criticism. Surveying German Romantic opera from the now-neglected Lortzing to Richard Strauss, he ranges easily through roles usually assigned to either a specifically baritone or bass voice.

In the lengthy extracts from Zar und Zimmermann he portrays both the pompous, amusingly portrayed mayor Van Bett and the upright figure of the Tsar, whose Act 3 aria he sings with refined tone and elegiac feeling having by then portrayed Van Bett’s preening in a voice perhaps not quite ‘fat’ enough for the ridiculous fellow. In Der Wildschütz he is funny as the schoolmaster Baculus, a buffo bass figure whose ‘Fünftausend Taler’ used to be a staple of a German bass’s repertory; then he sings Graf Eberbach’s lovely solo in a mellow baritone. It’s good to be reminded in such a positive way of Lortzing’s merits.

In a complete change of mood he then projects all the malevolent ardour of Lysiart’s highly original aria from Euryanthe, a work just revived this summer at Glyndebourne. This is a reading that recalls the style, in compact tone and verbal acuity, of the late, great Hermann Uhde. In the Tannhäuser pieces he projects the address of the benevolent Landgrave with complete authority and then sings Wolfram’s Evening Star aria, from which the CD takes its title, with perfection of tone and line. Finally he catches finely old Morosus’s restored peace after all the disturbing events of Die schweigsame Frau have finally come to an end. Once again, like his bass-baritone predecessor Hans Hotter, he easily encompasses the low range of this solo.

Thielemann, and his Berlin orchestra and chorus, are at one with their soloist throughout, and the recording catches everything in a clear, warm perspective.
--Gramophone Magazine

DDD 2002 Deutscher Grammophon
Format: Flac. 262 mb.
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Falstaff ~ Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

2009-01-31T10:57:00.005-01:00

Falstaff ~ Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) ~ Lyrische Komödie in drei Akten

Sir John Falstaff ............................Renato Bruson
Ford ....................................................Leo Nucci
Fenton ...............................................Dalmacio Gonzalez
Dr. Cajus ...........................................Michael Sells
Bardolfo ...................................Francis Egerton
Pistola ...............................................William Wildermann
Mrs. Alice Ford ..............................Katia Ricciarelli
Nannetta ..........................................Barbara Hendricks
Mrs. Quickly ....................................Lucia Valentini Terrani
Mrs. Meg Page .................................Brenda Boozer

Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini
Deutsche Grammophon 1982,

Format: Flac 2 disks,

Libretto incl. courtesy of Karadar.

Disk 1, 235 mb.

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Disk 2, 263 mb.

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Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924 ~ Turandot

2009-01-20T21:47:00.002-01:00

Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924 ~ Turandot
Lyric Drama in Three Acts

Turandot ~ A Chinese Princess ~ Eva Marton
Altoum ~ Emperor of China her father ~ Valdemar Kmentt
Timur ~ Deposed King of the Tartar ~ John-Paul Bogart
Calaf ~ The unknown Prince, his son ~ José Carreras
Liú ~ A young slave girl ~ Katia Ricciarelli
Ping ~ Chancellor ~ Robert Kerns
Pang ~ Marshall ~ Helmut Wildhaber
Pong ~ Chief cook ~ Heinz Zednik
A Mandarin ~ Kurt Rydl
Wiener Sängerknaben
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Director ~ Lorin Maazel

Sefel Records 1984
Format : Flac 2 disks, Libretto courtesy of KARADAR Incl.

Disk 1: 242 mb
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Disk 2: 277 mb.
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Tschaikowsky ~ Dvorak Streicherserenaden

2009-01-11T22:07:00.004-01:00

Serenade for strings (or piano, 4 hands) in C major, Op. 48

Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Serenade for string orchestra in E major, B. 52 (Op. 22)

Composer: Antonin Dvorak

Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

Format: Flac 243 mb

Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg 1981

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Giuseppi Verdi ~ Ernani

2009-01-06T21:15:00.006-01:00

Verdi: Ernani
Placido Domingo ~ Mirella Freni ~ Renato Bruson ~ Nicolai Ghiaurov

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Maestro del Coro : Romano Gadolfi

Conductor : Riccardo Muti
Live recording in cooperation with E.A. Teatro alla Scala, Milano
EMI Records Ltd. 1983, DDD

Format: Flac 3 disks

Libretto from Kadar incl.

Disk 1:

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Disk 2:

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Disk 3:

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Ave Maria

2008-12-21T23:40:00.003-01:00

José Carreras
Wiener Sängerknaben ~ Wiener Symphoniker
Uwe Christian Harrer

1. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56 Hallelujah
2. Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
3. Pietà, Signore (Agnus Dei), aria di chiesa (spurious, by Niedermeyer or Fétis)
4. Pregária, for voice & piano/orchestra
5. Deutsche Messe (German Mass), for mixed chorus, wind ensemble & organ, D. 872 Heilig, heilig, heilig
6. Ave Maria, for voice & piano (or other vocal arrangements; after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
7. Agnus Dei, for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Intermezzo from L'arlésienne Suite No. 2/6, arranged by Ernest Guirard)
8. Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra (Quattro pezzi sacri) Laudi alla vergine Maria
9. Repentir, song for mezzo-soprano & orchestra ('O Divine Redeemer")
10. Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174) Jesus bleibet meine Freude

Aufnahme Wien: 4/1983 PHILIPS Digital Classics
Format: Flac 193 mb.

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Johann Sebastian Bach ~ Weihnachts-Oratorium

2008-12-18T20:53:00.003-01:00

Live aufnahme vom 12.12.1998 aus der Nikolaienkirche, Leipzig

Format: Flac
Disk 1: 360 mb.

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Disk 2: 324 mb.

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Philips 1999 Universal Classics, Hamburg DDD

Die schönsten Liebeslieder aus der Oper

2008-11-30T20:20:00.005-01:00

Die schönsten Liebeslieder aus der Oper

Luciano Pavarotti ~ Placido Domingo ~ Montserrat Caballé

Jussi Björling ~ Leontyne Price ~ Marilyn Horne

Dawn Upshaw ~ Sherrill Milnes

Opera's Greatest Duets: Flac 311 mb.

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BMG Classics RCA Victor Red Seal 1994 DDD ADD

Opera's Greatest Lovesongs: Flac 281 mb.

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BMG Classic RCA Victor Red Seal 1993 DDD ADD

Hans Christian Lumbye (1810 - 1874)

2008-11-22T19:56:00.003-01:00

Hans Christian Lumbye (1810 – 1874) was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.
As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band. In 1829, he joined the Horse Guards in Copenhagen, still continuing his music education. In 1839, he heard a Viennese orchestra play music by Johann Strauss I, after which he composed in the style of Strauss, eventually earning the nickname "The Strauss of the North". From 1843 to 1872, he served as the music director and in-house composer for Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen. Such was his popularity in the Danish capital that many Danes revered him and considered Johann Strauss II as the "Lumbye of the South".
Lumbye is best known for his light compositions, many of which evoke non-musical sources. The Champagne Galop, for example, begins with the "pop" of a champagne cork, and the Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop faithfully recreates the sounds of a train chugging out of a station and grinding to a halt at the next stop.
He was the father of two musician sons, Carl Christian (July 9, 1841 - August 10, 1911) and Georg August (August 26, 1843 - 1922), who took over his orchestra after his father's death.

Composer: Hans Christian Lumbye

Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Performer: Christer Nilsson, Anton Kontra, Kim Sjøgren

Orchestra: Danmarks Radiosymfoniorkester

Chandos, April 25, 1994 DDD

Format: Flac 313 mb.

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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ( 1891–1953)

2008-11-18T21:04:00.011-01:00

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 Op. 25 "Classical"

Symphony No. 5 Op. 100

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Conductor : Yoel Levi

Format: Flac 238 mb

1991 TELARC International Corp. DDD

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Wolgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

2008-11-15T00:40:00.003-01:00

Wolgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Klavierkonzert Nr. 22 Es-dur, KV.482
Klavierkonzert Nr. 23 A-dur, KV.488

Dirigent : Daniel Barenboim ~ Piano
English Chamber Orchestra

EMI Records Ltd. Hayes Middlesex England 1988 ADD
Original sound recording made 1972 & 1967

Format: Flac 259 mb.

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Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)

2008-11-14T19:26:00.003-01:00

Klavierkonzerte nr. 1 & 2

Barcarolle ~ Impromptus

Nocturnes ~ Préludes ~ Walzer

Claudio Arrau

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Eliahu Inbal

3 Disk set format flac : 191mb + 272mb + 272mb.

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Polygram in Hanover, West Germany

London 10/70 - 9/79 Amsterdam 4/73 - 3/79 ADD

Playing time 3:05'15

Manon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

2008-11-11T22:28:00.007-01:00

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Manon Lescaut Oper in vier acten

Manon Lescaut ~ Montserrat Caballé
Chevalier des Grieux ~ Placido Domingo
Geronte de Ravoir ~ Noel Mangin
Lescaut ~ Vicente Sardinero
Edmondo ~ Robert Tear
L‘Oste ~ Richard van Allan
Il Maestro di Ballo ~ Bernard Dickerson
Un Musico ~ Delia Wallis
Un Sergente ~ Robert Lloyd
Un Lampionaio ~ Ian Partridge
Un Comandante ~ Gwynne Howell

Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Chorleitung : John McCarthy
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Bruno Bartoletti
1972 Original sound recording made by EMI Records Ltd.
Digital remastering 1987 by EMI Records Ltd. ADD

Disk 1 playing time: 57:30“ 241 mb.

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Disk 2 playing time: 58:38“ 247 mb.

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Libretto included
Format: flac

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

2008-11-11T21:22:00.002-01:00

Etudes, Op. 10

1. Etudes, Op. 10, in C major
2. Etudes, Op. 10, in A minor
3. Etudes, Op. 10, in E major, "Tritesse" - "L'intimite"
4. Etudes, Op. 10, in C sharp minor, "Torrent"
5. Etudes, Op. 10, in G flat major, "Black Keys"
6. Etudes, Op. 10, in E flat minor
7. Etudes, Op. 10, in C major, "Toccata"
8. Etudes, Op. 10, in F major
9. Etudes, Op. 10, in F minor
10. Etudes, Op. 10, in A flat major
11. Etudes, Op. 10, in E flat major
12. Etudes, Op. 10, in C minor, "Revolutionary" - "Fall of Warsaw"

Etudes, Op. 25

13. Etudes, Op. 25, in A flat major, "Aeolian Harp" - "Shepherd Boy
14. Etudes, Op. 25, in F minor, "Balm"
15. Etudes, Op. 25, in F major, "Carwheel"
16. Etudes, Op. 25, in A minor
17. Etudes, Op. 25, in E minor
18. Etudes, Op. 25, in G sharp minor
19. Etudes, Op. 25, in C sharp minor
20. Etudes, Op. 25, in D flat major
21. Etudes, Op. 25, in G flat major, "Butterfly"
22. Etudes, Op. 25, in B minor
23. Etudes, Op. 25, in A minor, "Winter Wind"
24. Etudes, Op. 25, in C minor, "Ocean"

Performer: Andrei Gavrilov

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

EMI Records Ltd. Hayes Middlesex, England DDD 1988

Format: Flac 176 mb.

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Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

2008-11-08T21:49:00.002-01:00

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

1. Allegro non troppo
2. Allegro appassionato
3. Andante
4. Allegro grazioso

Krystian Zimerman, piano
Wiener Philharmoniker
Cello-Solo Wolfgang Herzer
Conducter : Leonard Bernstein

Label: Deutsche Grammophon, Leonard Bernstein Edition, DDD, 1985
Format: Flac 184 mb.

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Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

2008-11-05T19:46:00.007-01:00

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

1. Un poco sostenuto ~ Allegro
2. Andante sostenuto ~ Violin Solo: Gerhart Hetzel
3. Un poco Allegretto e grazioso
4. Finale, Piu Andante ~ Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

Academic Festival Overture, for orchestra in C minor ("Akademische Festouvertüre"), Op. 80

5. Allegro ~ L‘istesso tempo, un poco maestoso ~ animato ~ Maestoso

Format: Flac 270 mb.

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein
Label: Deutsche Grammophon, Leonard Bernstein Edition, DDD, 1983

Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)

2008-10-31T17:09:00.009-01:00

Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)

Werther

Lyric drama in four acts after Goethe

Werter ~ José Carreras
Charlotte ~ Frederica von Stade
Albert ~ Thomas Allen
Sophie ~ Isobel Buchanan
Le Bailli ~ Robert Lloyd
Schmidt ~ Paul Crook
Johann ~ Malcolm King
Kätchen ~ Linda Humphries
Brülmann ~ Donaldson Bell
Les Enfants ~ Children from the Royal Opera House production
Frtz, Max, Hans, Karl, Gretel, Clara

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor : Sir Colin Davis
Recorded in London 2/1980 Philips Classics 416-654-2 ADD

Disc: 1
1. Prelude
2. Act One: AsseZ! Assez!/Bravo Pour Les Enfants!
3. Act One: Je Ne Sais Si Je Veille/Ô Nature, Pleine De Grâce
4. Act One: Jésus Vient De Naître!/Charlotte! Charlotte!/Ah! Monsieur Werther!/Arrivez Donc, Brühlmann
5. Act One: Ô Spectacle Idéal D'amour Et D'innocence/Monsieur Werther!.../A Ceux-là Ne Souhaitons Rien
6. Act One: Sophie!
7. Act One: Ellem'aime... Elle Pense À Moi/Orchestral Interlude
8. Act One: Il Faut Nous Séparer - Ah! Pourvu Que Je Voie Ces Yeux
9. Act One: Mais Vous Ne Savez Rien De Moi/Si Bous L'aviez Connue
10. Act One: Rêve! Extase! Bonheur!/Charlotte! Charlotte! Albert Est De Retour!
11. Act Two: Prelude
12. Act Two: Trois Mois! Voici Trois Mois Que Nous Sommes Unis!
13. Act Two: Un Autre Est Son Époux!/J'aurais Sur Ma Poitrine/Si Käthchen Reviendra
14. Act Two: Mais Celle Qui Devint Ma Femme/Vous L'avez Dit, Mon Âme Est Loyale
15. Act Two: Frère, Voyez Le Beau Bouguet!/Du Gai Soleil, Plein De Flamme/Heureux! Pourrai-je L'être En

Format: Flac 240 mb.

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Disc: 2
1. Act Two: Ah! Qu'il Est Loin Ce Jour Plein D'intime Douceur/N'est-il Donc Pas D'autre Femme Ici-bas
2. Act Two: Lorsque L'enfante Revient D'un Voyage Avant L'heure
3. Act Three: Prelude
4. Act Three: Werther! Werther... Qui M'aurait Dit La Place/Ce Lettres... Ah! Ie Les Relis Sans Cesse
5. Act Three: Bonjour, Grande Soeur!/Mais Souffres-Tu? - Ah, Le Rire Est Béni!
6. Act Three: Va! Laisse Couler Mes Larmes
7. Act Three: Ah! Mon Courage M'abandonne!
8. Act Three: Oui, C'est Moi/Pourquoi Cette Parole Amère?/Traduire... Ah! Bien Souvent Mon Rêve S'envo
9. Act Three: Pourquoi Me Réveiller, Ô Souffle Du Printemps?
10. Act Three: N'achevez Pas!/Non, Vous Ne Me Verrez Plus
11. Act Three: Ah! Moi! Moi! Dans Ses Bras!
12. Act Three: Werther Est De Retour
13. Act Four: The Night Before Christmas
14. Act Four: Qui Parle?
15. Act Four: Oui, Du Jour Même
16. Act Four: Noël! Noël! Noël!
17. Act Four: Ah! Ses Yeux Se Ferment.../Là-bas, Au Fond Du Cimetière

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonien nos. 29 * 34

2008-10-28T23:12:00.009-01:00

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Symphonien nos. 29 * 34

Synphonie no. 29 A-dur KV 201 (186a)
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante
3. Menuetto – Trio – Menuetto
4. Allegro con spirito
Symphonie no. 34 C-dur KV 338
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante di molto piú tosto Allegretto
3. Allegro vivace

Wiener Philharmoniker
James Levine

Deutsche Grammophon 1986

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Giuseppe Verdi ~ NABUCCO

2008-10-26T21:55:00.017-01:00

Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO
Nabucco ~ Piero Cappuccilli
Ismaele ~ Placido Domingo
Zaccaria ~ Evgeny Nesterenko
Abigaille ~ Ghena Dimitrova
Fenena ~ Lucia Valentini Terrani
Anna ~ Lucia Popp
Il Gran Sacerdote ~ Kurt Rydl
Abdallo ~ Volker Horn

Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

Deutsche Grammophon 1983
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Thomas Quasthoff A portrait

2008-10-23T20:37:00.008Z

Thomas Quasthoff A portrait

1. Erlkönig ("Wer reitet so spät"), song for voice & piano, D. 328 (Op. 1)
2. Der Zwerg ("Im trüben Licht"), song for voice & piano, D. 771 (Op. 22/1)
3. Prometheus ("Bedecke deinen Himmel"), song for voice & piano, D. 674
4. Der Lindenbaum ("Am Brunnen vor dem Tore"), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/5 (Op. 89/5)
5. Mondnacht ("Es war als hätt der Himmel..."), song for voice & piano (Liederkreis), Op. 39/5
6. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, song for voice & piano (Dichterliebe), Op. 48/1
7. Belsazar ("Die Mitternacht zog näher schon"), ballad for voice & piano, Op. 57
8. St. John Passion (Johannespassion), BWV 245 (BC D2) Eilt, Ihr angefochtnen Seelen (Aria No. 48)
9. St. John Passion (Johannespassion), BWV 245 (BC D2) Mein teurer Heiland, Laß dich fragen (Aria No. 60)
10. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 Hai già vinto la causa! - Vedrò mentre io sospiro
11. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Madamina, il catalogo è questo
12. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Deh! vieni alla finestra, o mio tesoro
13. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
14. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen
15. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 Pa-pa-pa-pa...
16. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 In diesen heil'gen Hallen
17. Fidelio, opera, Op. 72 Des besten Königs Wink und Wille

Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern, Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayersichen Rundfunks
Conductor: Colin Davis, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jose Collado, Jörg Faerber

RCA Red Label BMG Classics 2002
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Von Ganzem Herzen ~ Montserrat Caballé

2008-10-22T21:04:00.004Z

Von Ganzem Herzen

1. La-Le-Lu
2. La Tempranica - La Tarantula E Un Bicho Mu Malo
3. Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti
4. Los Claveles - Que Te Importa Que No Venga?
5. Die Lustige Witwe - Lippen Schweigen
6. Le Cygne - Der Schwan
7. Lakme - Viens Mallika... Dome Epais Le Jasmin
8. The Last Rose Of Summer
9. Martha - Letzte Rose - Martha! Herr! - Sie Lacht Zu Meinen Leiden
10. Gabriella Di Vergy - E Mai, Pietoso Cielo... Delle Nostr' Anime
11. Sapho - Air De La Seduction: Pendant Un An Je Fus Ta Femme
12. Alceste - Divinites Du Styx
13. Der Opernball - Im Chambre Separee
14. Die Zauberflote - Duett Papageno & Papagena: Pa-Pa-Pa
15. Air
16. Symphony No.5 – Adagietto
17. The Prayer

SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern
Chor des Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Conductor: José Collado

RCAVICTOR BMG Classics 1988

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Giuseppe Verdi ~ Messa Da Requiem

2008-10-20T22:39:00.003Z

Giuseppe Verdi Messa Da Requiem

Anna Tomanowa-Sintow ~ Soprano
Agnes Baltsa ~ Mezzo-Soprano
José Carreras ~ Tenore
José van Dam ~ Basso Baritono
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Chor der Nationaloper Sofia
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

Deutsche Grammophon 1985 ~ Karajan Gold

Disk 1
1. 1. REQUIEM (coro, soli)
2. DIES IRAE
2. Dies Irae (coro)
3. Tuba mirum (coro, basso)
4. Liber scriptus (mezzo-soprano, coro)
5. Quid sum miser(soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenore)
6. Rex tremendae (soli, coro)
7. Recordare (soprano, mezzo-soprano)
8. Ingemisco (tenore)
9. Confutatis (basso, coro)
10. Lacrymosa (soli, coro)

Disk 2
1. 3. OFFERTORIO (soli)
2. 4. SANCTUS (doppio coro)
3. 5. AGNUS DEI (soprano, mezzo-soprano, coro)
4. 6. LUX AETERNA (mezzo-soprano, tenore, basso)

5. 7. LIBERA ME (soprano, coro)

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Á Beira Tejo ~ Fado Music ~ Jorge Fernando

2008-10-14T00:31:00.007Z

Jorge Fernando celebrated his 25 years in show business in May 2000 with a celebrity concert in Lisbon's Tivoli theatre. He was 16 when he became a professional fado singer and guitarist. Jorge Fernando toured more than 5 years the world when Carlos Goncalves asked him to join the band of Amália Rodriguez.
His first solo success happened in 1983 when he performed at the RTP festival with the song "Brancas Para O Meu Amor" which earned him a record deal. In 1985 Fernando performed again at the RTP festival and the song "Umbada" became a number one hit for several months in the Portuguese hit parade.These days Jorge Fernando is considered as one of the most important male fado singers and writer/composer in Portugal. He released several successful albums in Portugal in his long spanning career.

Fado (translated as destiny or fate) is a music genre which can be traced from the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. In popular belief, Fado is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor. However, in reality Fado is simply a form of song which can be about anything, but must follow a certain structure.
The music is usually linked to the Portuguese word saudade (that has no match in English but it could be understood as nostalgia felt while missing someone), a word describing a sentiment. Another similar English translation can be to pine for something or someone.

Tracklist:
1. Guitarra
2. Amor Maior
3. Negro Xaile
4. Barquito Corcel
5. Provinciano
6. Mar Cruel
7. Senhora
8. Apenas Desalento
9. Amiga
10. Á Beira Tejo
Capa : Alta MIRagem Publidade Lda. 1996

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Popular Symphonic Pieces by Soviet Composers

2008-10-11T18:04:00.005Z

Popular Symphonic Pieces by Soviet Composers

The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Conductor: Mark Ermler

Mark Ermler occupies a prominent place among Soviet musicians. Well-known to music lovers of this and other countries, his name often appears in the bills of our leading theatres, the Bolshoi, and other major concert halls and theatres.
Ermler was born in Leningrad in the familie of the prominent film director, People's Artist of the USSR, Friedrich Ermler.

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Best of Vivaldi & Tchaikovsky

2008-10-04T22:48:00.006Z

Best of Vivaldi & Tchaikovsky

Performed by: St. Petersburg Chamber Festival Orchestra,
Chamber Orchestra Harmony and many more
Best of Vivaldi

1. Concerto for Guitar in D major – Largo
2. Concerto for 2 Violoncellos in G monor, RV 531 I. Allegro
3. Corncerto for Bassoon in A minor RV 497 I. Allegro molto
4. Concerto no. 1 in E major, R 269 „Spring“ I. Allegro
5. Concerto no. 2 in G minor, „Summer“ II. Adagio – Presto
6. Concerto no. 3 in F major, „Autumn“ I. Allegro-
Larghetto-allegro molto
7. Concerto no. 4 in F minor, R 297, !Winter“ II. Largo
8. Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra in a minor III. Allegro
9. Concerto in A major RV 159 II. Adagio
10. Concerto for 4 Violins and Orchestra in D major Op. 3/I
L‘estro armonico II. Largo e spiccato
11. Concerto for Flute RV. 108 II. Largo
12. Concerto Grosso op. 3 No. 11 I.
Allegro-Adagio spiccato e tutti –Allegro
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Performed by: St. Petersburg Chamber Festival Orchestra,
Chamber Orchestra Harmony and many more.
Best of Tchaikovsky

1. Nutcracker Ballet Suite Op. 71a (excerpts from the Ballet) Overture
2. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23
I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso-Allegro con spirito
3. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 II. Canzonetta. Andante
4. St. Petersburg RSO – The Sleeping Beauty, Suite No. 6 Valse
5. Georgian SIMI Festival Orchestra –
Festival Overture „1812“ Op. 49
6. Georgian SIMI Festival Orchestra – Swan Lake, Op. 20, Introduction
7. Swan Lake, Op. 20 – No. 8, Dance de coupes
8. „The Seasons“ Op. 37a No. 6, June
9. Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 II. Valse. Moderato.
Temo di Valse
10. The Nutcracker, Op. 71, No. 9 Valse des flocons de neige.
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Water Music, Georg Friederich Händel

2008-09-30T23:40:00.005Z

Georg Friedrich Händel, Water Music

Performer:

The English Concert

The English Concert is an "authentic performance" ensemble, founded by harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock in 1973. The group quickly established itself as one of Britain's leading orchestras in the then-young field of performing Baroque works on Baroque instruments. The English Concert and the energetic Pinnock helped put historical performance on the charts. The orchestra has a reputation for stylish, lively, and high-quality music-making. Its sound is light, bright, and clear. Its strings usually employ no vibrato, and its winds have a woody, attractive tone that blends well with strings and with the fortepiano. Generally the orchestra applies only a light swelling on sustained string notes. In explaining the orchestra's choice to specialize in original instruments (or painstakingly authentic re-creations of them), Pinnock explains, "The answer is simple -- we wanted to use the most suitable tools for the job. These instruments were good enough for Bach -- surely they're good enough for us." In 1983, the English Concert Choir was established, to perform and record choral works with the instrumental ensemble. After 30 years leading the group, Pinnock stepped down and turned the music directorship over to Andrew Manze.
Recording for Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv imprint, Harmonia Mundi, and its own label, Avie, the English Concert has released over 70 albums, many of which have won top recording awards such as the Grand Prix du Disque<>

Suite in F major HWV 348
1. Ouverture (Largo-Allegro)
2. Adagio e staccato
3. (Allegro) – Andante – (Allegro da capo)
4. (Menuet)
5. Air
6. Menuet
7. Bourrée
8. Hornpipe
9. (Andante)

Suite in D/G major HWV 349/350
10. (Ouverture)
11. Alla Hornpipe
12. (Menuet)
13. Rigaudon
14. Lentement
15. Bourrée
16. Menuet
17. (Andante)
18. (Country Dance I/II)
19. Menuet

1983 Polydor Inernational GmbH, Hamburg

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The ultimate organ collection

2008-09-29T23:03:00.004Z

J. S. Bach

The ultimate organ collection

Anthony Newman, Organ

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, S.565
Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, S.542 „Great“
Prelude and Fugue in C major, S.545
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, S.564
Toccata and Fugue in F major, S.540
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, S.582
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, S538 „Dorian“

Format: Flac 425 mb / cover incl.
Total playing time: 72:31
The Vox Group 1994

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Händel‘s The Messiah

2008-09-28T22:08:00.004Z

Berühmte Orgelwerke des Barock

2008-09-26T22:16:00.005Z

Berühmte Orgelwerke des Barock

Composers:
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)
Konzert für Orgel und Orchester d-moll op. 74

Carl Phil. Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1789)
Konzert für Orgel/Streicher/Basso continuo G – Dur (Wotqu.Nr. 34)

Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Concerto per l‘organo –
für Orgel und Orchester C – Dur Hob. XVIII/I

Total playing time : 63:97
Selected Sound Carrier AG/CH 1994
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Bach zum Brunch

2008-09-26T01:09:00.019Z

Bach zum Brunch
Musik für schöne Stunden

Performers: Deutsche Bachsolisten,Cyprien Katsaris,John Williams,

Isaac Stern and more.....

Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH 1999
File size: 323 mb
Format: Flac incl. Front cover only

1. Orchestersuite Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 1066 – Overtüre
Deutsche Bachsolisten – Helmut Winschermann, Dirigent
2. Italienisches Konzert F- Dur BWV 971
Cyprien Katsaris, Klavier
3. Lautensuite a – moll BWV 995 – Gavottes I & II
John Williams, Gitarre
4. Konzert für Oboe und Violine c – moll BWV 1060 – Allegro
Richard Killmer, Oboe – Pinchas Zukerman, Violine
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra – Pinchas Zukerman, Dirigent
5. Flötenkonzert g – moll BWV 1056
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Flöte – Ars Rediviva Orchestra Prague
Milan Munchlinger, Dirigent
6. Concerto C – Dur BWV 976
Cyprien Katsaris, Klavier
7. Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 3 G – Dur BWV 1048
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hartmut Haenchen, Dirigent
8. Orchestersuite Nr. 3 D – Dur BWV 1068 – Gavotte
Deutsche Bachsolisten – Helmut Winschermann, Dirigent
9. Klavierkonzert nr. 4 A – Dur BWV 1055 – Allegro
Glenn Gould, Klavier – Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Golschmann, Dirigent
10. Lautensuite E – Dur BWV 1006a – Menuette I & II
John Williams, Gitarre
11. Violinkonzert Nr.2 E – Dur BWV 1042 – Allegro
Isaac Stern, Violine – English Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Schneider, Dirigent
12. Orchestersuite Nr.2 h – moll BWV 1064 – Polonaise
Deutsche Bachsolisten – Helmut Winschermann, Dirigent
13. Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr.4 G – Dur BWV 1049 – Allegro
Tafelmusic – Jeanne Lamon, Dirigentin
14. Konzert für 2 Violinen d – moll BWV 1043 – Allegro
Isaac Stern Violine – Pinchas Zukerman, Violine
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra – Pinchas Zukerman, Dirigent

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Slawische Tänze, by Antonin Dvorak

2008-09-21T23:21:00.030Z

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Louis-Claude Daquin

2008-09-20T00:20:00.008Z

Nouveau livre de Noels

LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN was born in Paris to a reasonably well-connected family. On his mother’s side he was related to Rabelais, on his father’s to the Rabbi of Avignon (who had converted to Christianity before he died in 1650). His great uncle was one of Louis XIV’s doctors and a King’s Counsellor. His father was a painter who travelled widely but with little commercial success. Louis-Claude was one of five children, but the only one to reach adulthood. Little in his back- ground would seem to have pointed to a musical career but Daquin showed a precocious talent at the keyboard as a very young boy; he was given some early lessons by a chaplain at the Sainte-Chapelle and informal instruction in composition by Nicolas Bernier. At the age of six he is said to have been heard by the King himself: the Dauphin predicted that he would become ‘the leading man of his age’. At the age of eight he reportedly directed (under Bernier’s guidance) a performance of his own Beatus vir for a large chorus and orchestra at the Sainte-Chapelle. His keyboard skill rapidly won him a variety of posts: in 1706 he became organist with the Hospitaliers de St Antoine and assistant to Marin de la Guerre at the Sainte-Chapelle. His first adult success came in 1727 when he defeated Rameau in a flamboyant competition to become organist at St Paul. Louis Marchand heard him play there and they became friends. As Marchand was dying in 1732 he is supposed to have said to his organ at les Cordeliers: ‘Farewell, dear widow: only Daquin is worthy of you.’ Daquin duly succeeded him. His crowning professional achievement came in 1739 when he was appointed as one of the King’s personal organists

The first record of an organ in France dates from the eighth century. By the tenth century Rheims was a centre of excellence for French organists. Illustrations on manuscripts suggest that the organ played a central part in French church music in the following centuries. Guillaume de Machaut is generally credited as having been the first (in the fourteenth century) to refer to the organ as ‘the king of instruments’. Organs came to be very large and elaborate: the organs at Amiens (1429), Rheims (1487) and Strasbourg (1489) all had more than two thousand pipes. By the seventeenth century the great tonal variety had come to be codified, giving way to a remarkable consistency of design and registration that lasted until the Revolution. This consistency was unmatched in Germany and Northern Europe

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